ONE Championship returned to the Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok and returned to Amazon Prime Video with Friday night’s ONE Fight Night 15: Le vs. Freymanov.
Taking place Saturday locally in Thailand, the second of back-to-back Lumpinee cards featured an interim featherweight championship fight as its main event. That bout, with current ONE featherweight champ Tang Kai out of action for over a year, saw Thanh Le, the man who lost the title to Kai, taking on #3-ranked contender Ilya Freymanov.
Russia’s Freymanov had won his last five, including a victory over ex-champ Martin Nguyen. Le had not competed since losing his title, but had won five straight himself before that setback, with victories over Nguyen and BJJ star Garry Tonon.
Le had twice been passed over the by UFC, once as part of The Ultimate Fighter in 2015, and again after picking up a win on the Contender Series in 2017, despite landing a head kick finish.
In the co-main event, Italian-Canadian Jonathan Di Bella looked to make the first defense of his strawweight kickboxing world title, as he took on Danial Williams.
ONE Fight Night 15 goes down live at the Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, October 6, 2023, streaming on Amazon Prime Video in North America. Full results can be found below.
ONE Fight Night 15: Le vs. Freymanov Results
Thanh Le def. Ilya Freymanov by submission (heel hook), Round 1, 1:02 — for the vacant ONE interim featherweight championship
Jonathan Di Bella (c) def. Danial Williams by unanimous decision — for the ONE strawweight kickboxing championship
Tawanchai PK Saenchai def. Jo Nattawut by unanimous decision — kickboxing
Mikey Musumeci def. Shinya Aoki by submission (heel hook), 3:05 — submission grappling
Joshua Pacio def. Mansur Malachiev by unanimous decision
Zhang Lipeng def. Timofey Nastyukhin by TKO, Round 1, 3:18
Hu Yong def. Eko Roni Saputra by TKO, Round 1, 1:03
Phetjeeja def. Celest Hansen by TKO (doctor’s stoppage), Round 3, 1:01 — Muay Thai
Hiroyuki Tetsuka def. Jin Tae Ho by submission (arm-bar), Round 1, 4:45
Shakir Al-Tekreeti def. Bampara Kouyate by unanimous decision — Muay Thai
